Fake Hope [BTS fanfic]

Prologue

"Nabi, what did they say?" Wren asked her over the phone hurriedly.  Wren could hear her excited squeals.  Normally, both of them watch the V live streams at the same time and Nabi translates what they're saying.  However, whatever they were talking about had Nabi beyond excited.

"They just announced the release of their artificial personas!  Right now, they're talking about what all you can do with an artificial persona.  You can save it to your phone and have it act as a virtual assistant kind of like Siri.  You can ask it questions and it's supposed to answer just like they would!" Nabi exclaimed.  Clearly, her excitement was matched by the thousands watching live.  The chat window exploded with multiple users showing their excitement at the thought of being able to talk to the band members one on one in a virtual sense.

Nabi got real quiet all the sudden and she noticed on the screen that BTS had brought in a human-like robot clothed similarly to the BTS members.  BTS began talking again and Nabi followed suit.  "And now, we bring in our simulator.  This machine can take in our A.P.s and reflect our faces on its own face.  It will almost be like you are talking to us in person." Nabi translated from what RM said.

The other members on the video showed their wonder as RM helped Suga with turning on the simulator.  The simulator then turned on and the blank humanoid face was replaced with Jimin's face.  "Hello, I am Jimin." The simulator said according to Nabi.    The chat window's pace of new messages increased frenetically.  Some of the English messages read "OMG!!" or "I don't care if it's virtual, I NEED IT....".  

"Ooooh!" Jimin exclaimed.  "That's so scary!  It almost looks exactly like I do." Nabi translated for me.  Jimin, still alarmed, approached the fake Jimin.  Jimin then asked the fake Jimin basic questions about himself.  The fake Jimin answered all of them correctly and even started to mimic Jimin's body language.

"But that is not all!" RM suddenly started speaking English. "Jimin, switch to English." 

After a few held breaths, the fake Jimin began speaking again.  "Hello, I'm Jimin." The simulator announced in English.  Many users became even more alarmed once the simulator began speaking in perfect English.  "I love all of you, ARMY.  I can speak and answer questions in English as well.  Feel free to ask me any questions that you have always to ask me."

The real Jimin was really impressed.  "Seriously?  His English is better than mine." Jimin remarked to his fellow band members.  The other band members laughed nervously.  The fake Jimin's gaze was directed to the screen. 

"How much am I?  Currently, I am available via a monthly subscription.  You can go to the BTS A.P. website to see all of the A.P.s available."  The fake Jimin appeared to have answered a question on the chat.

"That's right," RM switched back to Korean and Nabi started translating again. "Every member of BTS is there and available.  Right now, we only have 1 per member, but the plan is to have multiple versions of each member available."

"Why would there be multiple versions of each member?" Jin asked RM almost as if on queue.

"Glad, you asked," RM chimed, "Obviously, A.P.s are not prefect representations of us as they only know us based on what they have seen in our previous videos and also the training data we helped create.  As more footage of us is available, the footage will be uploaded to our different A.P.s to help give the A.P.s more data about who we are."

RM took a sip of water and then continued his explanation in Korean. "These original A.P.s will treat all data presented to them equally.  The eventual plan is to also allow for certain parts of our personalities to be conveyed more strongly and allow ARMY to pick what part of our personality that want to see the most."